It's boring the arse off me. After a great pilot that showed loads of promise, it's basically being pissed away by artificial lengthening - they're almost ignoring the main premise and just going with pointless island squabbles.

This should have been a concentrated mini-series. It doesn't have enough there to cover a full series.

meme wrote:
After a great pilot that showed loads of promise, it's basically being pissed away by artificial lengthening - they're almost ignoring the main premise and just going with pointless island squabbles.

Doesn't really explain a whole heap of stuff that would be more interesting than watching people argue on an island - no wait they're on the sub, no wait they're on the island, no wait they're back on the sub. Nuclear missiles have been fired at cities!

Watched the first episode of this last night and thought it was a bit crap.

Everything happened so quickly that it was impossible to get any impact from any of the 9,000 potentially world-changing decisions made during those 45 minutes. The final scene setting up the various other plot strands for the series just made me groan, too.

It's incredible that they took a concept that could have been amazing and utterly fucked it. It reminded me a lot of Jericho - decent pilot and concept, let down by basically making it a fucking soap opera with trivial family matters taking precedent over, oh I don't know, nuclear freakin' holocaust.

It wasn't totally poor casting. Andre Braugher is fantastic in almost everything he does. But every other in the show character felt horribly generic. Though I did stop watching after episode four or so.